How we work
How the catalogue works and why you can trust it. Updated 01 October 2026.
We compare, we do not sell
Search Host is a comparison catalogue. You enter into a contract directly with the provider, you pay the provider, and every obligation for the service is theirs. We are neither an intermediary in the transaction nor a party to the contract.
A place in the catalogue cannot be bought
- The order of plans follows price, rating or votes — whichever you chose. No provider can pay to be placed higher.
- Provider ratings are calculated only from user scores, by an open formula you can check on the “How the rating works” page.
- Reviews. We do not delete negative ones, and we do not write positive ones ourselves.
- Who is in the catalogue. A provider gets listed not for money, but because it has plans our visitors would want to see.
About prices and discounts
The prices in the catalogue are the ones the provider publishes; we neither invent nor round them in our favour. Prices in foreign currency are converted at the Bank of Russia rate, and the date of that rate is shown next to the price. That is our figure for comparison — the provider will bill you in its own currency.
A discount is shown only when the provider genuinely offers it to our visitors, and the condition is always written next to it — “for the first order”, for example. We have no struck-through “old” prices that never existed.
Data can go stale
Providers change prices and terms without notice. We update the catalogue, but time passes between a change at the provider and the update here. The date of the last update is shown on every plan card, and the current price is always the one on the provider’s own site — go by that when you order.
Found something wrong?
If a price or a specification differs from the provider’s site, write to info@search-host.com. The same address is for providers: listing and data corrections.
With some providers we have an affiliate arrangement — those buttons are marked “Affiliate link”. The price you pay does not change because of it.